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title: A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask a worker or a mum with children instead. Who acts: man, boy. A sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» of the everyday course of
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# What to do if you are lost, sentence 7

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A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask a worker or a mum with children instead.

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**Who acts:** man, boy · **What happens:** lose, go, say, help, take, learn · **To what, where:** boy, festival, security point, worker · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:7
# text = A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask a worker or a mum with children instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 017-if-you-are-lost.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | a boy in Ireland |  | a festival |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with a man | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | would | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past · do-support | the man | boy |  | a security point |  | luckily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to point=Destination |
| 6 | **learn** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | a worker or a mum with children |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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